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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most of Things to Come is representational music. Its movements (with titles like "Attack," "Pestilence," "World in Ruin") describe a future world war and its aftermath. But to critics some of the Things appeared to have come out of the musical past rather than the future. They were reminded of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Bliss and Things | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

Recently German health statistics made the most amazing disclosure of all: that 75% of the male population at one time or another have had some form of venereal disease. This almost incredible figure, in the light of Das Neue Tage-Buch's, researches, may be a consequence not only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Ailing Germany | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

In the lamplit and gaslit days of the U. S. theatre, few plays were published. Four years ago Barrett Harper Clark, historian and critic (Eugene O'Neill, A Study of the Modern Drama) of the drama, got an $8,000 grant (through Authors' League of America and the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Prestige Programs | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

Original director of the Workshop was Irving Reis, a swarthy, jittery onetime control-room engineer who thought the production, not the play, was the thing, and who sweated with oscillators, electrical filters, echo chambers to produce some of the most exciting sounds ever put on the air-Gulliver's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Prestige Programs | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

The current between Billings and Glendive flows at 5 m.p.h. in some places, 2 m.p.h. in others. But Auctioneer Giles had floated only two miles out of the 288 because it was too difficult to keep his body stiff. He was fed sugar cubes, fruit juices and lettuce sandwiches every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Down the Yellowstone | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

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